A blogger called the FBI Director a "googly-eyed Kremlin b—." Kash Patel sued him for $10 million. A federal judge just threw the case out. The insult is now quoted in the ruling.
It gets better. Patel had already won this case once.
For two years, blogger Jim Stewartson had been posting on X and Substack that Patel was a "Kremlin asset," a "blatantly incompetent chud," and had helped plan January 6.
In June 2023, Patel, then a podcast-circuit Trump loyalist, sued him in Nevada.
Stewartson ignored the lawsuit. So in August 2025, the court handed Patel a default judgment worth a quarter of a million dollars. He was a winner. On paper.
Then Stewartson finally showed up in court with one argument: wrong state.
He lives in California. His posts were aimed at a national audience. Tagging Patel, who happens to live in Nevada, doesn't make a tweet Nevada's business.
Chief Judge Andrew Gordon agreed.
The court never had jurisdiction over Stewartson at all. It never had the power to award Patel a dime. Judgment vacated. Case dismissed. And in a footnote, the judge quoted the insult in full.
Understand what happened here. The top law enforcement officer in the United States spent three years on this. He demanded ten million dollars. And his legal team failed the first question on the exam: which court to file in.
The court never even reached whether the insults were false. It didn't have to. Patel's case died at the front door.
Stewartson took his victory lap on X: "I'd like to commend the judge for including 'googly-eyed Kremlin b—' in his ruling."
And he had one more message for the director. "You were also going after bloggers. But you can't even do that right."
Stewartson runs a Substack.
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